I have installed Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1 and I want to install and configure automated generated builds for the team.
In Team Foundation Management Console, there is an entry "Build and release" but there a only informations and links that are not clickable.
If I click a link, another windows opens, but the ok button stays disabled, so I do not get additional information:
In earlier releases of TFS I could install and configure the tfs build system on this place.
How I can do now in tfs2018. Do I have to install additional software and where I can download.
For one reason, we are using Visual Studio 2015 (we want upgrade later to 2017).
Go to the TFS Web interface, in the settings panel find the Agent Pool and hit the "Download Agent" link.
TFS 2018 is the first TFS version that no longer supports the XAML agent infrastructure.
You need to deploy an agent first as jessehouwing mentiond above, you can also refer to this link for detials : Deploy an agent on Windows
Then create a build definition and Enable continuous integration (CI) to automate builds. Refer to this link for details： https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/actions/ci-cd-part-1
Below articles may also helps for you:
Build and Release in VSTS and TFS
Build and release tasks
Build and release quickstarts
Thanks for the answers. No I have found the page, where I can download the build-agent.
For TFS2018 you can download the build agent by using the following url:
https://{your_server}/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool
Like provided from Microsoft you can find it for other TFS versions:
VSTS: https://{your_account}.visualstudio.com/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2017: https://{your_server}/tfs/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2015: http://{your_server}:8080/tfs/_admin/_AgentPool
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When I click on 'browse market place' for our production TFS server, it directly links to our VSTS account. If I then try to install the Sonarqube extension I only have the option to get it.
I can install it directly for VSTS or download it for our on-premise environment.
(it behaves the same way for other extensions as well)
The strange this is that on our test on-premise environemnt I still do have the option to directly install it.
2 questions:
1) What can I reconfigure on our production env to get a connection to it in the marketplace.
2) How do I get the downloaded file into our on-premise environment?
Update:
You could still be able to install the extension to TFS. Simply Click get it free option, there should be an option download at the bottom of the pop-up dialog.
You could then upload the locally extension to TFS server follow this tutorial, finally install to your team project collection.
If you are running on TFS earlier than 2017 Update 2, you will need to download and manually install the latest 3.x version of the VSIX.
You can download the VSIX on the "Releases" page of the GitHub repository
Versions 4.x are compatible with:
TFS 2017 Update 2+
TFS 2018
VSTS
You could directly get it from server through url, and it will show as Get it free.
More details please take a look at this tutorial: Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS
Beside suggest you could also go through below tutorialshow to get/install extension from TFS/VSTS:
Install extensions for Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Install free extensions for VSTS
We installed the newest TFS Server (TFS 2018 Update 2) which should run xaml builds.
After the update, we started our agent, but our xaml-controller is still offline and I don't know how I start this again..
Any ideas what we can do?
Yes, you can now upgrade to TFS 2018 Update 2 and continue to connect
your XAML controllers and run XAML builds. When we removed support for
XAML build in TFS 2018 RTW and Update 1, some of you could not upgrade
due to having legacy XAML builds, and we want to unblock you. Although
TFS 2018 Update 2 supports XAML builds for your legacy builds, XAML
build is deprecated and there will be no further investment, so we
highly recommend converting to a newer build definition format. See
the Evolving TFS/Team Services build automation capabilities blog
for more information about XAML build deprecation.
When you upgrade to TFS 2018 Update 2:
If you have any XAML build data in your team project collection,
you'll get a warning about the deprecation of XAML build features.
You will need to use VS or Team Explorer 2017 to edit XAML build
definitions or to queue new XAML builds.
If you need to create new XAML build agents, you’ll need to install
them using the TFS 2015 build agent installer.
XAML Build Controller/Agent info is now under Additional Tools and Components > XAML Build Configuration in the TFS Administration Console. Make sure your build services on the same server as your application tier. You possibly didn't re-configure your XAML build services after the upgrade. Try this and then check again.
Thanks #PatrickLu-MSFT!! through your help, we found a workaround.
Now we use one server for the Source Control etc. (TFS 2018) and another server only for the xaml-app-controller with TFS 2015.
So we can build our projects, and have time to create new build definitions.
I am new to Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. Have used Jenkins, but now I'm trying to explore and possibly switch to TFS. The Build View add-on in Jenkins is very helpful by providing visual view of all the deploys. Is there any in TFS that will provide information, which builds have succeeded or failed and progress of current deployments?
Thanks
There is the build summary view in TFS and can review each build of a build definition.
A related article: Visual Studio Team Services – NEW FEATURES: 3 Build Summary Page Improvements
When we are trying to queue a build with some coded UI tests, TFS 2015 complains about test agent not being of the correct version.
No agent found in pool 1 which satisfies the specified demains:
Agent.Version -gtVersion 1.94.0
I've downloaded and installed the Agents for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, but I'm not sure if it's the latest possible version we can get.
I'm 100% pretty sure TFS sees our agent.
Is there a way to ensure we have this 1.94.0 version? And where can I find a download link for it? Or maybe, the problem is not with the version?
It's looking for a build agent which version is equal to 1.94.0 rather than the test agent version. Please download the latest build agent from your TFS web portal and configure it.
If you are running tests using Build vNext tasks and want to install agents from a local directory, you need to download Agents for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 - Click on "Tools for Visual Studio 2015" and then select "Agents for Visual Studio 2015" from the left navigation bar.
Or you can add a Visual Studio Test Agent Deployment task in your build step. This task will deploy “Test Agent” to all the machines and configures them automatically for the automation run.
I've installed the prerequisite (Team Explorer 2013) to the best of my knowledge, but when I try to set up a VCS root to connect to our TFS Version Control server, I continue to get this error message:
"No TFS assemblies were found on the system. Please make sure you have
Microsoft Team Explorer installed. Supported versions: 2015 2013 2012
2010 2008 2005"
The Team Explorer I downloaded from Microsoft just seemed to be a plugin for Visual Studio, which doesn't make much sense as a server-side component. Anyway, I configured a connection to our TFS box within Team Explorer/Visual Studio on my TeamCity server.
So I have two questions that seem to be undocumented by JetBrains:
What does it mean to set up and configure Team Explorer? How can I validate that I have set up and configured Team Explorer on my TeamCity server correctly?
How does TeamCity know how to find the Team Explorer assemblies? Is there some sort of configuration I am supposed to do? Where is this documented?
I guess I'm looking for a true step-by-step set of instructions that make no assumptions about my understanding of TFS or Team Explorer, or any assumptions about what I may have already installed on my TeamCity box.
I've read the two articles on the JetBrains site regarding how to set this up, and they don't cover actually installing and configuring the prerequisites or configuring TeamCity to discover the Team Explorer assemblies it needs.
Team Explorer is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server functionality from Visual Studio. You can simply launch Team Explorer on your TeamCity server to create a team project and check in a project, to validate whether it is installed correctly.
I couldn't find any documentation that mentioned how does TeamCity find Team Explorer assemblies. But, based on my understanding, there is no configuration needed to detect Team Explorer. Please make sure your TeamCity server is running under Windows.
If the issue that can't find Team Explorer persists, you can install VS Premium instead of Team Explorer.
Setting up Jetbrains TeamCity for CI with Team Foundation Server:
Install Jetbrains TeamCity
If you are planning on using IIS or TFS on the same server, configure Jetbrains TeamCity to run on a port other than 80 or 8080
Once TeamCity is up and running, you can begin configuring your TeamCity installation for CI Builds.
Log into TeamCity with your user name and password
Create a new TeamCity Project
Create a new build configuration
You will now see a series of build configuration settings that you will have to complete presented in a Wizard-style navigation view.
Enter General Settings
Enter VCS Settings
After entering VCS Settings, Create and attach new VCS Root
Enter the relevant information for your TFS instance
Create a Build Step using Visual Studio as your build runner. You can create as many build steps as you need and specify the order of the steps (similar to a TFS Build Workflow).
For setting up Continuous Integration builds, you will need to specify a Build Trigger. CI Builds will generally use a VCS Trigger that is triggered on each source control check-in.
If you need to pass any parameters to your build, you can configure these in your Build Parameters.
That is all! You can then either run your Builds manually by clicking on the Run button in TeamCity or simply verify that your builds are triggered by the next check-in into TFS.